I have not posted on this blog in a very long time and I do
not want to leave this blog when I know it spurred me on to lots of interesting
quotes from my patron saint, so I’ll try and post a bit now. Albeit you, dear
reader, will have to bear smaller posts, since school, career, and health
forbid me from writing more than just some tidbits here and there.
Below I’d like to post a few interesting tidbits from St.
Augustine’s Propositions on St. Paul’s Epistle to the Romans which was written
sometime during 394 AD and so about two or three years before the writing of “Miscellany
of Questions in Response to St. Simplicianus”. In this manner, these
propositions are a series of notes and writings from his conversations with the
other members of the clergy in his vicinity. At this time St. Augustine was a
priest for three years, and in the coming year he would succeed Valerius, the
bishop in Hippo-Regius, as the bishop of Hippo. This is one of the earliest writings we have in which St. Augustine directly addresses some of the questions in Romans. St. Augustine does address the Law and grace in his earlier anti-Manichean works, but here we see his maturing theology of grace. (I'll write more at another time)
